I am interested in buying a vpn. But the whole reason for me buying it, would be to use it like this:
Use vpn on all my connections on my computer and phone. BUT. Connections made to youtube, should pass through a different vpn server. All while using nord vpn servers only. Example: Lets say i live in england. I would like all my network traffic to go through a swedish server of nord vpn, except any traffic going to youtube.com. All traffic towards and from youtube, should be made through a connection to a server based in italy. Is that possible through the use of the nord vpn app and broswer extension? Note: tracking youtube traffic by ip address, is inconsistent. It should be done by using domain names.
Split tunneling is splitting between VPN and no VPN so it doesnt work like that, but I guess if you use browser extension on top of desktop app it should technically work. The browser connection is going to be routed through 2 servers so it may slow down your connection.
Another thing is the browser extension on nord only let you specify domains to be excluded, so unless you want all/most browser connection to go through the same server, you need a dedicated browser or profile for youtube only. Maybe you could setup a proxy with pac file and specify youtube only but thats too much trouble I think.
well i tried it. Pure nord vpn apps cant handle the dual vpn connections. Nothing ever loads. I didnt get too technical. I would route all my firefox traffic through lets say: england. And my broswer extention would route my traffic through germany, excluding packets for youtube. What happened was that youtube would load, with an english ip, but anything else wouldnt load. Well thats sad. I am pretty sure that using multiple vpn services would solve the issue. Because cyberghost was able to solve that issue from what i understand but anyway. Its not worth the hassle for my exact problem
It should be possible but even nord doesnt recommend it. If you can get split tunneling to work then exclude your browser on the desktop app and use browser extension only.